Andy's Treasure Trove

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Andy's Treasure Trove episodes

  • 17 – Bob & Ray (with guests Bob Elliott and Tom Lehrer)

    A salute to the pioneering comedy team of Bob & Ray, featuring a new interview with Bob Elliott, many excerpts from Bob & Ray recordings, and some recent appreciative comments by another comedy great Tom Lehrer. Host Andy Moore is “mighty grateful” to know Bob Elliott & Tom Lehrer, and wishes he had met Ray Goulding. All Bob & Ray recordings are available on Amazon.com

    Keywords for Episode 17:

    Bob & Ray, Bob Elliott, Ray Goulding, Tom Lehrer, Wally Ballou, Boston, radio, WHDH, Fisherman’s News Service, Sunny Side Up, Robert Benchley, Kurt Vonnegut, Maine, Matinee with Bob & Ray, Jack Headstrong, Grit, Smurge, Whiff, Einbinder Flypaper, NBC, Aunt Penny’s Sunlit Kitchen, Hard Luck Stories, The Word Wizard, Garish Summit, One Fella’s Family, Just Fancy Dan, the Barber of Hartsdale, Just Plain Bill, Mr. Treat, Chaser of Lost Persons, man on the street, Tippy the Wonder Dog, Tom Cook, The Gathering Dusk, Mary Backstayge Cast Party, Grand National Spelling Bee, Steven Wright, Seinfeld, Charles the Poet, Slow Talkers of America, Mary McGoon’s Recipe for Frozen Ginger Ale Salad, Chris Elliott, Abby Elliott, Two Rode West, David Pollock, Bob and Ray—Keener Than Most Persons, Amazon.com

    49 min
  • 16 – Author Sarah Schulman

    Episode 16 features an interview from 2009 with the noted writer Sarah Schulman, the author of After Dolores, Shimmer, People in Trouble, Rat Bohemia, Stagestruck, and many others. Andy chats with Sarah about, among other things, her keen interest in Wilhelm Reich, her self-admitted graphomania, the film festival she co-directs every year in New York with Jim Hubbard, and the documentary that she and Jim made about the activist organization ACTUP called United in Anger, a History of Act Up. Appearing in some of Sarah’s anecdotes are Woody Allen, Richard Nixon, James Baldwin and Alexander Kerensky. Who was Alexander Kerensky? Listen and find out.

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    415-508-4084

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    Keywords and links:

    Sarah Schulman, After Dolores, Shimmer, People in Trouble, Rat Bohemia, Stagestruck, Jim Hubbard, ACT-UP, United in Anger: A History of ACT-UP, Woody Allen, Richard Nixon, James Baldwin, Alexander Kerensky, Petit Versailles, Yaffa Cafe, Wilhelm Reich, Sexpol, sexual politics,The Mass Psychology of Fascism, Orgone, Wilhelm Reich Observatory, William Burroughs, Jeffrey Skoller, Orson Bean, Me And The Orgone, Esalen, To Tell the Truth, Fury On Earth: A Biography Of Wilhelm Reich, Loon Lodge, graphomania, The Child, Diamanda Galas, Nan Goldin, Martin Luther King, Letter from Birmingham Jail, ACT-UP Oral History Project, President Obama, Shopwell, Dark Shadows, Bob & Ray, Bob Elliot, Dr. Andrew Weil. Sarah’s Amazon page: http://www.amazon.com/Sarah-Schulman/e/B000AP923G Her facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/sarah.schulman.56

    36 min
  • 15 – Candace Roberts, Becky Haycox & Lorenzo Barrar

    Episode 15 begins with a mammoth roll of thunder recorded here in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. Then there’s a 2.5 min. interview with Becky Haycox (winner of the recent iPod contest) about the “science quilts” she is making in Ventura, California. After that we talk with Lorenzo Barrar, a 12-year-old jeweler and mycologist who has spent most of his life in a forest near Gualala, California. Lorenzo talks about his mushroom hunting and jewelry-making, and the rewards that close observation of nature provides (11 min.). Then the main event—my interview with singer/songwriter Candace Roberts, along with tuneful excerpts from her album Honeymoon for One (33 min.). The episode closes with some voicemail messages left by listeners on the Andy’s Treasure Trove Listener Call-in Line (415-508-4084). Please add your comments by calling that number and leaving a message for me or for the whole Treasure Trove audience. This is your opportunity for immortality! And please tell your friends about Andy’s Treasure Trove—a new contest is coming soon!

    Call the listener call-in line to leave a message for Andy and/or his audience:

    415-508-4084

    When you call, please say “This is [your name] and I’m on Andy’s Treasure Trove!”

    Listen & Subscribe to this podcast (it’s free!) via iTunes: click HERE

    Also on GooglePlay: click HERE

    Explore Candace Roberts and her album Honeymoon for One at www.candaceroberts.com

    Keywords and links:

    Thunder, San Francisco, Becky Haycox, science quilts, Ventura, Lorenzo Barrar, mycology, mushrooms, marasmius mushroom, chanterelle mushroom, black trumpet mushroom, death trumpet mushroom, hedgehog mushroom, jewelry-making, antique jewelry, Gualala, CA, Roots Originals, Point Arena, CA, Candace Roberts, Honeymoon for One, Kazakhstan, Walton-on-Thames, England, Sarah Schulman.

    51 min
  • 14 – Orson Welles’ Trials and Tribulations

    Episode 14 is a very short episode. We’re going to hear from Orson Welles as he struggles to record some TV commercials. But first I will announce the winner of the contest for the Apple iPod that was based on the name of Manny Roth’s home-made bread from Episode 12. Remember fartbread?

    The Orson Welles recording was sent to me by a listener who got it from a friend. You may laugh, you may cry, but you’ll never forget Orson’s sonorous intonations about peas, beef and cod.

    And now, imagine that you are a fly on the wall of a recording studio where filmmaking genius Orson Welles is recording narration for TV commercials, and not having a very easy time of it…

    9 min
  • 13 – Richard Conrad, Classical Singer, on Joan Sutherland, Noel Coward, Marilyn Horne and Adlai Stevenson…

    Singer Richard Conrad is interviewed, and he reflects back on a career that got a big boost early on from opera superstar Joan Sutherland and her husband Richard Bonynge when they asked him to record The Age of Bel Canto with them and Marilyn Horne in 1963. During our discussion he’ll talk about those days, and about Gilbert & Sullivan, Noel Coward and many other notables in the music world. Richard also tells us a joke he told to Noel Coward that made Coward fall down laughing, and he tells about a hilarious men’s room encounter with none other than…Adlai Stevenson! I ask you, where else can you get this kind of programming? At the close of the episode, Andy reminds listeners to enter the drawing for a free iPod by calling 415-508-4084 and saying the secret word (found at 18 min., 20 sec. into Episode 12). Happy listening!

    Call the listener call-in line to leave a message for Andy and/or his audience:

    415-508-4084

    When you call, please say “This is [your name] and I’m on Andy’s Treasure Trove!”

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    Keywords and links:

    Richard Conrad, Home, Sweet Home, Sir Henry Bishop, William Merrill, Joan Sutherland, Richard Bonynge, Marilyn Horne, The Age of Bel Canto, Hughes Cuenod, Angiol di Pace, Beatrice di Tenda, Daniel Pinkham, Noel Coward, Tom Lehrer, W.S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, Gilbert and Sullivan, Eleanor Steber, Adlai Stevenson, Vencenzo Bellni, Angiol di Pace (from Beatrice di Tenda), The Major General’s Song, The Pirates of Penzance.

    Selected Discography of Richard Conrad:

    London Records: Baroque and Bel Canto Opera
    Westminster-Music Guild: Baroque Sacred Cantatas
    Composers Recordings: 20th-century vocal music
    Telefunken: Handel Opera
    Northeastern Records: 20th-century vocal music
    MMO: Porgy and Bess, Can Can, Showboat
    Pearl Records: Songs and Ballads by Arthur Sullivan
    Newport Classic: Songs of Noel Coward
    Naxos: Vanessa
    Arsis: The Cask of Amontillado by Daniel Pinkham

    26 min
  • 12 – Manny Roth of Cafe Wha?, Music by Candace Roberts

    Episode 12 starts with music from the new album Honeymoon for One by Candace Roberts. Then Andy interviews Manny Roth, who ran the famous Cafe Wha? in New York City, presenting up-and-coming entertainers like Bob Dylan, Bill Cosby, Peter, Paul & Mary, Richard Pryor, Jimi Hendrix and many others. Manny tells us about his childhood in Indiana, his stint as a flyer and as a USO show coordinator in WWII, and then about his arrival in Greenwich Village and the start of his cafe and night club empire.

    This episode has a contest/drawing, and the prize is a brand new Apple iPod Shuffle (I know I say “Nano” in the show but it’s only a Shuffle).

    Andy’s listener call-in phone line — for comments, questions, contest entries and your audio contributions to the show:

    Call 415-508-4084

    Cafe Wha?

    Photos by Michael Zucker
    Keywords and Links:
    Candace Roberts, Honeymoon for One, Manny Roth, Bob Dylan, Peter Paul & Mary, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Jimi Hendrix, Kiev, Russia, Vilna, Poland, Newcastle, Indiana, Chrysler, Indiana University, University of Miami, Army Air Corps, World War Two, WWII, Snoopy, B-17 bomber, USO shows, Wiesbaden Opera House, Kate Smith, Muncie, John Wayne, army/navy goods, American Theater Wing, GI Bill, Lee Strasberg, Will Lee, Thelma Schnee, Bill Kirkland, Jason Robards, Marlon Brando, Greenwich Village, Bleecker Street, Tribeca, The Bowery, Vatican City Religious Bookshop, Cafe Theater Cock and Bull, Tom Zeigler, Le Figaro Cafe, Cafe Wha?, Macdougal Street, Lou Gossett, Godfrey Cambridge, hootenanny, Bobby Zimmerman, Woody Allen, Tiny Tim, Dino Valenti, The Quicksilver Messenger Service, Lenny Bruce, Maxwell Bodenheim, Shane O’Neill, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Valerie Solanas, Andy Warhol, Johnny Brent, Lou Reed, the Tonight Show, the Rudy Vallee Show, Johnny Carson, Jerry Seinfeld, Ray Romano, Denis Leary, Bill Hicks, David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, Van Halen, Michael Zucker, Brandon Roth.

    52 min
  • 11 – Terence Davies Interview, Music by David Lisle
    Episode 11 starts with two potential theme songs for Andy’s Treasure Trove submitted by listener and friend David Lisle, followed by Andy’s interview with British actor, writer and director Terence Davies. Born in 1945 in Liverpool, England, Terence Davies was the youngest of 10 children in a Catholic working-class family who suffered with an abusive father, bullies at school, the abuses of the Catholic Church and his own legendary self-loathing for being gay. After a shut-down adolescence he spent years as an accountant. He got into acting and then writing and filmmaking. His first 3 short films made in the 1980’s entitled Children, Madonna and Child, and Death and Transfiguration later became known as The Terence Davies Trilogy. They were semi-autobiographical glimpses into the harrowing life of torment experienced by Davies in post-WWII Liverpool. In his first feature film, 1988’s Distant Voices, Still Lives, the family again lives in the shadow of a monstrously abusive father, this time played by the great British character actor Pete Postlethwaite, whom Davies says is the only actor to play a member of his family who actually looked like the person they were portraying.
    Andy talks to Terence Davies about the 1992 film The Long Day Closes, a beautiful film centering on the favorite time of Davies’ childhood between the time his abusive father died and the family could relax a little, and the onset of his own highly fraught adolescence. They talk about several of his favorite cinematic techniques including his re-contextualizing of fragments of soundtracks from other movies, about the lost tradition of public singing in Britain, and of the chronic low self-esteem that haunts this great artist. Also about his new documentary/essay film about Liverpool entitled Of Time and the City, opening on Jan. 21 at Film Forum in NYC following a buzz-generating special screening at the Cannes film festival last year. Terence Davies is also being honored at New York’s Museum of Modern Art this week. In an article in the New York Times yesterday (Jan. 11th), Dennis Lim compared Terence Davies with the English singer Morrissey in that they have both made a beautiful body of work based on misery. Andy spoke to Terence Davies following a chance meeting at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley California. See keywords, links and a photo below:
    Keywords and Links:
    Andy’s Treasure Trove online store, www.andystreasuretrove.com, Terence Davies, theme music, theme songs, David Lisle, The Great Hall of 100 Treasure Boxes, Liverpool, England, abusive father, Children, Madonna and Child, Death and Transfiguration, The Terence Davies Trilogy, Distant Voices, Still Lives, Pete Postlethwaite, Postlewaite, The Long Day Closes, The Neon Bible, The House of Mirth, Film Forum, Cannes Film Festival, New York Times, Dennis Lim, Morrissey, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, Leigh McCormack, autobiographical films and plays, T.S. Eliott’s Four Quartets, Brueckner, depression, The Ladykillers, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Meet Me In St. Louis, 20th Century Fox Fanfare, Randy Newman’s Uncle Alfred Newman, Nat King Cole, Stardust, cinematic look, technique, testing, light, texture, Anaglypta textured wallpaper, Christopher Hobbs, film editing, timing, A Shropshire Lad, George Butterworth, British Film Institute Fellow, public and private singing in Great Britain, popular music, lyrics, Cole Porter, vulgarization and decline of most artforms in the last 40 years, Rogers and Hart, Hammerstein, Hoagy Carmichael, Great Period of American Songwriting, Lorenz Hart, Of Time And The City, BBC, Listen With Mother, Williamson Square, Berceuse (lullaby) from The Dolly Suite by Gabriel Faure, Alchemy, Magic, Andy’s Treasure Trove Listener Call-in Line: 415-508-4084.
    A personal note from Andy: My favorite color is NOT mauve, despite the lyrics of David Lisle’s wacky theme song for Andy’s Treasure Trove on this episode. :o)
    38 min
  • 10 – SF Silent Film Festival, Leonard Maltin, Guy Maddin, Theater Pipe Organ Wizard Clark Wilson, and lots more…

    Episode 10 is dedicated to Andy's favorite film festival in San Francisco, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. You’ll hear his conversations with noted film critic and TV personality Leonard Maltin of Entertainment Tonight fame. There's a conversation with Suzanne Lloyd, the Granddaughter of cinematic genius Harold Lloyd. Andy chats and chews with Canadian director Guy Maddin, and talks to pipe organ wizards Edward Stout and Clark Wilson. You'll hear live performances of the musical scores from some of the films at the Festival, just as they were intended to be performed back in the late 1920’s when the silent film era was at its zenith. You'll also hear lots of laughter from the 2,000 people at the festival. Add in a couple of impromptu lobby discussions with other festival-goers, and you've got a great podcast episode! Enjoy!

    Keywords and links for this episode:

    San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Castro Theatre, silent films, live music, Wurlitzer theater pipe organs, Leonard Maltin, Suzanne Lloyd, Harold Lloyd, Guy Maddin, Todd Browning, "The Unknown" , Edward Stout, Clark Wilson, musical scores, "The Kid Brother" , the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, prosthetic hand, 3-D photography, camera movement, movies on television, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Turner Classic Movies (TCM), David Packard, Counterculture Era, "Casablanca," , "The Unknown" , Lon Chaney Sr., Winnipeg, San Francisco NoirFest, melodrama, Joan Crawford, Lon Chaney Jr. , "La Roue" , "The Last Laugh" , Abel Gance, "Days of Heaven", ice cream, "Two Timid Souls" , Odile Lavaux, The Baguette Quartette, Patrick Hoctel, Natalja Vekic, Cary Grant, Samuel Beckett, Vera Ellen, Edward Stout, Clark Wilson, "The Patsy" , George Wright, San Francisco Fox Theater, Oakland Paramount Theater, Golden Gate Theater, Grace Cathedral, Dick Taylor, Taylor Family, Mel Novikoff, Stanford Theater, California Theater, San Jose, Grand Lake Theater, cue sheet, lead lines, music cue, ranks of organ pipes, "The Man Who Laughs"

    46 min
  • 9 – Barack Obama Campaign Mega Phone Bank, JoAnne Brasil’s Astrology Report, and More Music from Janis Ian

    Episode 9 begins with a visit to San Francisco’s Mega Phone Bank for the Barack Obama campaign. We speak to the organizers and the volunteers. Then JoAnne Brasil tells us what astrology says about the month of November, and we close with another beautiful song by Janis Ian called Through the Years.

    Keywords and links for this episode:

    Barack Obama, Diebold, JoAnne Brasil, astrology, John McCain, Joe Biden, Janis Ian.

    28 min
  • 8 – John Killacky Talks About His Documentary on Janis Ian, then Music by Janis Ian

    Episode #8 begins with the announcement of our very first contest! Then we talk to John Killacky of the San Francisco Foundation about his new documentary concert film Janis Ian, Live From Grand Center, and a lot about Janis Ian herself. We’ll also learn about two other projects of John’s: a film about 541 Broadway in New York, a nexus of postmodern dance history, and John’s new passion for Shetland pony showing and pony cart driving. Then we’ll hear Janis Ian herself singing We’re Married in London, her wry take on marriage inequality, accompanied by her own great guitar playing and much laughter from the live audience. Please scroll down to view the photos of Janis Ian and John Killacky, and to find links to videos of John’s life as a pony handler.

    Keywords and links for this episode:

    John Killacky, San Francisco Foundation, Janis Ian, “Janis Ian, Live From Grand Center” , “At Seventeen” , “At 17” , “Society’s Child” , “Jesse” , Roberta Flack, Shadow Morton, Leonard Bernstein, “Inside Pop, the Rock Revolution” , “Stars” , Barbara Cook, Cher, “Between the Lines” , Billy Joel, Giorgio Moroder, “Fly Too High” , Stern Grove, Victor Fink, John Mellencamp, “Tattoo” , foundation funding, David Geffen, Laura Nero, St. Louis, Grand Center, The Sheldon Theater, Missouri Film Commission, Anheuser Busch, Nashville, National Educational Telecommunications Association, NETA, PBS, Kent Samuel, Sesame Street, “Ginny the Flying Girl” , “Married in London” , Adrian Ellis, “Jazz at Lincoln Center” , Wynton Marsalis, Tricia Brown Dance Company, 541 Broadway, David Gordon, Valda Setterfield, Lucinda Childs, Douglas Dunn, Joan Jonas, Yvonne Rainer, SoHo, Shetland ponies, YouTube, ponymansf, Fog Ranch, Watsonville, same-sex marriage, Proposition 8.

    44 min

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Welcome to the Andy’s Treasure Trove podcast, where your host Andy Moore interviews fascinating people and takes you along on audio adventures exploring Culture, Art, and Fun in San Francisco and…